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Computational image reconstruction algorithms generally produce a single image without any measure of uncertainty or confidence. Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) and feed-forward deep learning approaches for inverse problems typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 He Sun , Katherine L. Bouman

Learned image reconstruction techniques using deep neural networks have recently gained popularity, and have delivered promising empirical results. However, most approaches focus on one single recovery for each observation, and thus neglect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chen Zhang , Riccardo Barbano , Bangti Jin

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and limited number of detected photons. Recently deep neural networks have been widely and successfully used in computer vision tasks and attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kuang Gong , Jiahui Guan , Kyungsang Kim , Xuezhu Zhang , Georges El Fakhri , Jinyi Qi , Quanzheng Li

Uncertainty quantification is crucial for the deployment of image restoration models in safety-critical domains, like autonomous driving and biological imaging. To date, methods for uncertainty visualization have mainly focused on per-pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elias Nehme , Omer Yair , Tomer Michaeli

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is a vital tool in medical diagnostics, offering detailed insights into molecular processes within the human body. However, PET images often suffer from complicated noise, which can obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuehua Ye , Hongxu Yang , Adam J. Schwarz

Diffusion models have shown great promise in medical image denoising and reconstruction, but their application to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging remains limited by tracer-specific contrast variability and high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Fumio Hashimoto , Kuang Gong

Image reconstruction of low-count positron emission tomography (PET) data is challenging. Kernel methods address the challenge by incorporating image prior information in the forward model of iterative PET image reconstruction. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Siqi Li , Kuang Gong , Ramsey D. Badawi , Edward J. Kim , Jinyi Qi , Guobao Wang

An image or volume of interest in positron emission tomography (PET) is reconstructed from pairs of gamma rays emitted from a radioactive substance. Many image reconstruction methods are based on estimation of pixels or voxels on some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Azra Tafro , Damir Seršić , Ana Sović Kržić

Background: In medical imaging, images are usually treated as deterministic, while their uncertainties are largely underexplored. Purpose: This work aims at using deep learning to efficiently estimate posterior distributions of imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Xiaofeng Liu , Thibault Marin , Tiss Amal , Jonghye Woo , Georges El Fakhri , Jinsong Ouyang

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important molecular imaging tool widely used in medicine. Traditional PET systems rely on complete detector rings for full angular coverage and reliable data collection. However, incomplete-ring PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yeqi Fang , Rong Zhou

Uncertainty quantification in inverse medical imaging tasks with deep learning has received little attention. However, deep models trained on large data sets tend to hallucinate and create artifacts in the reconstructed output that are not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Max-Heinrich Laves , Malte Tölle , Tobias Ortmaier

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a vital imaging modality widely used in clinical diagnosis and preclinical research but faces limitations in image resolution and signal-to-noise ratio due to inherent physical degradation factors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Boxiao Yu , Kuang Gong

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is one of the nuclear medicine imaging modalities used for functional analysis of animal and human organs. Gamma rays emitted from the scanned body are filtered with collimators and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Manu Francis , Muhammed Tarek , Mark Pickering , Murat Tahtali

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely utilized for cancer detection due to its ability to visualize functional and biological processes in vivo. PET images are usually reconstructed from histogrammed raw data (sinograms) using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yiran Sun , Osama Mawlawi

Radiation exposure in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging limits its usage in the studies of radiation-sensitive populations, e.g., pregnant women, children, and adults that require longitudinal imaging. Reducing the PET radiotracer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Viswanath P. Sudarshan , Uddeshya Upadhyay , Gary F. Egan , Zhaolin Chen , Suyash P. Awate

This paper reviewed the machine learning-based studies for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of machine learning-based methods in PET attenuation correction and low-count…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Tonghe Wang , Yang Lei , Yabo Fu , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

Positron emission tomographs (PET) do not measure an image directly. Instead, they measure at the boundary of the field-of-view (FOV) of PET tomograph a sinogram that consists of measurements of the sums of all the counts along the lines…

In this paper, we provide a novel method for the estimation of unknown parameters of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in Positron Emission Tomography (PET). A vast majority of PET imaging methods are based on reconstruction model that is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tomislav Matulić , Damir Seršić